What is Prayer?

What is Prayer?
Prayer is an essential part of daily activity. “Therefore remember Me, I will remember you and be Gratefull to Me, and reject not faith” (Al-Baqara:152).

Prayer is a conversation with God
Prayer is an act of communication rather than a ritual. It is not a mechanical torrent of empty words.

Let us define prayer as simply communicating with our Creator. Prayer might be asking God for help. It might be thanking Him for His blessings. Or it might be simply communicating, much the same way we might talk with a friend, discussing our day.

Are you communicating with God daily?
Do you make time for Him everyday, no matter what? If you do, great. If not, I challenge you to get into the habit now. You will notice an immediate difference in the way you perceive things and in the way you respond to the world around you. Prayer does indeed change things.

Worship helps us enter into prayer
Everyone has the same thirst to meet the Creator of the universe, who draws us to Him. We want to respond to God’s creative action for us, both past and present. Worship is a free act on our behalf; it’s the act of a person who wants to meet his Creator. It is an act which requires the search for truth. Humanity is religious and the way we respond to God’s creative and loving action is through worship, which leads to contemplation.